Omaha daily bee., 1887-03-04
DEATH In THE WATER.
Is the Element We Drink Decimating the
..s People.
How a Universal Menace to Health
May BE Disarmed.

\ few years ago the people in q certain
section in one of the leading cities of the
state were prostrated with a malignant dis
ease, and upon investigation it was found
that only those who used water from
famous old well were the victims.
Professor s. A. baltimore, analyst Of the
New York State Board of Health. upon ana
living water from this well found 1t more
deadly than the city sewage.
The filling up of the old well stopped the
ravages of the disease.
Not long since the writer noticed while
some men were making an excavation for a
large building, stratum of dark colored
earth running from near the surface to hard
pan. There it took another course toward q
well near at hand. The water from this well
had Tor years been tainted with the DRAWINGS
from a receiving vault, the percolationS of
which had discolored the earth.
Terrible!
a similar condition of things exists in
every village and city where well water is
iluds receive in passing through the earth
may give them clear appearance, yet the
poison and disease remains, though the
water may look never so clear.
1t is still worse with the farmer, for the
DRAINAGE from the barn yard and the slops
from the kitched eventually hnd their way
into the family well.
The same condition of things exists in our
fed by little streams that carry of the NTH
and drainage from houses. This water is
eventually drunk by rich and poor alike with
great evil.
Some cautious people resort to the filter
for purifying this water. but even the filter
does not remove this poison, tor water of the
most deadly character may pass through this
filter and become clear, yet the poison dis
gulSed is there
They who use filters know that they must
be renewed at regular periods, for even
though they do not take out all the impur-
ity, they soon become foul.
Now in like manner the human Kidneys
act as filter for the blood, and if they are
filled up with impurities and become foul
like the filter, all the blood in the system
coursing through them become bad, for it Is
now conceded fact that the kidneys are the
chief means whereby the blood is purified.
These organs are filled with thousands of
hdir-tike tubes which drain the impurities
from the blood. as the sewer pipes drain lin
puritieS from our houses.
III Il sewer pipe breaks under the house,
the sewage escapes into the earth and fills
the house with poisonous gas: SO II any OF
the thousand and one little har-like sewer
tuber of the kidneys break down, the entire
body is affected by this awful poison.
1t is a scientific fact that the kidneys have
few nerves of sensation: and, consequently.
disease may exist in these organs for a lon !:
time and not be suspected by the individual.
1t is impossible to filter or take the death out
OF the blood when the least arrangement eX-
lists in these organs, and if the blood is not
filtered then the uric acid, or kidney poison,
removed only by Warmers safe cure, accu-
initiates IN the system and attacks any organ,
producing nine out of ten ailments, Just as
sewer gas and bad drainage produce so many
fatal disorders.
Kidney disease NAV be known to exist il
there is any marked departure from ordinary
health without apparent known cause, and
it should be understood by all that the great
est peril exists; and is intensified, If there is
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that great specific, Warmers safe cure, a
remedy that has received the heigheSt recog-
milton by scientific men who have thoroughly
Investigated the character OF kidney derange-
ments.
They may not tell us that the cause of so
many diseases in this organ is the impure
water or any other one thing but this poison.
Gus water. with its impurities coursing con-
stantly through these delicate organs un-
doubtedly does produce much of the decay
and disease which eventually terminates in
the fatal Bright's disease, for this disease
alike among the drinking men, prohibitions
lists the tobacco slave, the laborer, the nler-
chant and the tramp, works terrible devasta-
ton every year.
1t is we'll known that the liver which is so
easily thrown out of gear as they say,
neys. That organ when deranged, inmedt.
! utely announces the fact by sallow skin, con.
stlpated bowels, coated tongue, and head.
aches, but the kidney when diseased, strug'
| giles on for long time, and the fact OF Its
disease can only be discovered By the aid OF
| the microscope or by the physician who is
| Skillful enough to trace the most indirect eff
| fects in the system 70 the derangement OF
| these organs, as the prime cause.
The public is learning much on this sub
| ject and when it comes TO understand that
| the kidneys are the real health regulators
as they are the real blood purifiers of tlt
| system, they will escape an infinite amount
| of unnecessary suffering, and add length OF
| days and happiness to their lot.